Going To Colombia

How to Tell Your Mom You’re Going to Colombia by GUEST AUTHOR on Jul 2, 2012 • 19:14 6 Comments
Colombia is hardly anything like the movie ‘Blow’ would lead us to believe…for the most part. But try telling that to your mom.

How to tell your mom youre going to colombia

Here are 6 ways to tell your mom you’re going to Colombia.

1) You’re not going to get kidnapped, but you might fall in love

Kidnappings, especially of tourists, are a thing of the past. Besides, the last time a high profile foreigner got kidnapped in Colombia, she was Colombian (Colombian-French, that is) and had rubbed the people in the president’s office the wrong way. So unless you’re planning on heaving your butt over here for a political throw-down with the dudes

There is a growing number of businesses and aficionados set on swinging that trend and believe me, the perpetual caffeine induced panic attack is worth every drop of quality Colombian coffee. Check out jesusmartin.com or [e-mail] for enough coffee porn to make you wet.

3) You’re going to get educated

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The arts are alive in Bogotá. Street art is everywhere and it’s about as raw as you can get to brutal Colombian pride and humor (local artists feature renowned university professors). Community projects are springing up in major cities to educate and support kids from poorer barrios, like bogotagrafiti’s co-operation to provide creative outlets for communities around the capital, and Gerardo Nieto’s contribution to Cartagena’s international Film Festival by providing training for disadvantaged in media production.

To top it all off, museums are open for free on the last Sunday for every month, in the capital, and you kick it with the best of the philharmonic symphony on Friday nights for as little as 17,000 pesos, or $8.50.

4) You’re going to get fit and start that

Vendors line the streets of most cities selling copitas of various fruit for as little as 50 cents. Traditional dulces such as obleas (wafer sandwiches filled with arequipe, candied milk and coconut), and cocadas (toasted coconut mixed with sugary, pasty nom-noms: that’s Spanish for feed me more) are never more than a stone’s throw away.

Fruit to be included on your to-eat list must include grenadilla (what you get if you cross passionfruit with pomegranate), guanabana (what you would get if you could milk a durian, without the foul smell), lulo (what you get when you make apple juice taste exciting) and of course the tropical fallbacks, mango, papaya and pineapple…you’ll never taste anything like it.

But with all that sugar running in your system to cleverly counteract the caffeine high you’ve been on for the last 8 days, a quality toothbrush is the least you can bring.

6) You’re going to make